Orifice meter



Aug. 21, 1928. y 1,681,174

, J. c. DIEHL ,Y

oar-Fier". METER Filed Dec. 12', 1924 Patented Aug.f 21, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

JOHN C. DIEHL, 0F PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 AMERICAN METER COM- PANY, INC., 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

ommen METER.

Application filed December 12,v 1924.. Serial No. 755,393.

Orifice meters have heretofore been made recording on charts the line pressure on one side of the orifice and the difference in pres sure between the up-stream side and the down-stream side of the orifice. The common practice has been to take the readings from the chart giving the pressure and differential and computi` from these the flow of fluid through the meier. With the present invention I form the chart and so arrange the pen arms responding to the line pressure and the differential pressure so that the readings on the chart are the square roots of the pressures which are recorded by the pen arms or multiples of these square roots and in consequence the computation necessary to find these square roots as in the ordinary meter is obviated. Preferably I so arrange the pen arms that they will read with the same chart figures, one utilizing these lfigures for indicating the differential usually in inches of water and the other utilizing these same figures for the line pressure usually in pounds, or rather the square roots of these pressures.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing which shows a. front elevation of' the device, partly in section.

In this drawing, 1 marks the connection to the upstream line, and 2 the connection to the down stream line, the main line and the orifice not being shown. 3 marks the chart and 4 the clock mechanism operating through a shaft 5 to rotate the chart. A Bourdon tube or pressure spring 6 is connected by way of a tube 6a with the upstream line. A pen arm 7 is actuated by the pressure spring 6 and records through a pen 8 at the end of the arm upon the chart. A U-tube 9 has the arm 1() subjected to the upstream pressure through a connection 11 and the arm 12 subjected to t-he down-stream pressure through a fioat chamber 13 and connection 14. rlhe float chamber 13 has the usual float 15. The movement of this float is communicated by an arm 16 with a shaft 17 concentric with the spring 6. Apen arm 18 eX- tends from the shaft 17 and is supplied with the pen 19 recording the movement ofthe pen arm on the chart.

The pen arm 7 is adjusted so as to assume a lzero position on the chart at absolute zero pressure and the pen arm 18'assumes a zero position on the chart with azero differential,

in other words, exactly equal pressures on the two arms of the U'tube.

The chart has the usual time marks and is graduated'in and out for the pen arms and these gradual-tions are indicated wit-h figures representing the square root of the pressures to whlch the pen arms actually respond, or in some instances multiples of the square roots, as shown the actual square roots.

In computing the flow through an orifice meterthe formula is usually stated as Q (E1/ITP in which Q 1s the quantity of fluid flowing through the meter per unit of time,

C the coefficient representing the flow at r cording the pressures the relative flow Vis directly recorded by the pen arms. For example, if the differential remains constant and the pressure varies the change in rate of flow is directly proportioned to the changey on the record pressure line.

Another marked advantage of this chart and meter is that only one color of lines is required because there is no `chance for error due to a transposing` in the computation the reading of the differential and the line pressure because it is merely a computation of the two figures and the proper designation for each figure is of no consequence. vAs a result there is no necessity for carefully differentiating on the chart the record indicated by the differential pressure and the record indicat zero; pen arms operating on said cha-rt; and means responsive to differential pressure and line'pressure 'actuating said pen arms, said means adjusting said pen arms to the differential and absolute zeros.

2. In an oriice meter, the combination of Ya chart having designations based on the square roots of differential and line pressures to be recorded, the same designations indicating both the line pressure and differential pressure upon arms operating on the chart; and means responsive to line presf 3., ln an orifice meter, the combination of`y pen arms; means responsive to dierential pressure actuating one pen arm; means rethe same treatment of the records as factors' in the computation Whereb ditferentiation as to the record. Ina-de by either pen arm 1s obviated.

4. In an orifice meter, the combination ota chart scaled and having designations based on square roots of line pressure to be recorded and calibrated for absolute izero of pressure; a pen arm operating on said chart; and means responsive to line pressure actuating said pen arm being calibrated from absolute zero.

lin testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand,

JHN C., DEHL. 

